Blissed-out sunshine grooves to elevate moods. A variety of musical styles unite in our latest offering: Tropical Crush.

A refreshing blend of more than 600 all-new sounds and midi fusing island rhythms, slo-fi beats and chilled deep house grooves with playful Caribbean melodies, hazy guitar loops, and sun-soaked songstarters. 

You’ll find carefully-considered and expertly programmed drums, which as always, are presented broken out into individual stems. There’s a generous helping of reworked and re-interpreted live percussion, foley, and effects to enhance your creativity. More than 140 single drum hits are also provided for total flexibility.

The musical content covers everything you’d expect - a treasure trove of laidback guitars, bright synth basses, dreamy chords and piano progressions, lush chord and synth oneshots, plus vibrant chimes, kalimbas, and mallet instruments alongside world-class songstarters.

With so much inspiring material in this collection, it’s sure to inject some instant feel-good vibes and juicy musical inspiration for songwriters, producers or anyone working across house, deep house, indie dance, and those with more lo-fi, ambient or downtempo sensibilities. 

See you poolside!

What’s inside:

	•	130 melodic loops
	•	154 drum loops
	•	33 bass loops
	•	144 drum hits
	•	27 fx and fx loops
	•	30 melodic oneshots
	•	15 tops and percussion loops
	•	6 vocals
	•	80 midi files (only available on our website)

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Tropical Crush (NITELIFE Audio Sample Collection)

What initially began as a series of Sunday morning after-parties at various venues including The Gass Club, Elephant & Castle and The Arches, the 'Sunday Scene' kickstarted and pioneered one of London's most culturally important music scenes. Although to begin with the DJ's were spinning (almost exclusively) US house tracks and dubs by the likes of Masters at Work & MK, they played these records at a much faster tempo, creating the essential energy and flow needed to re-invigorate ravers who'd already (mostly) been dancing all night across the road at the Ministry of Sound.

In future collections to complement this one, we'll be exploring the more musical, gospel-influenced American house at the heart of the US - UK connection, as well as the seminal sounds of prominent labels like Nice N Ripe, but this edition focuses on the ruffer cut-up riddims and bumpy, soundsystem-influenced basslines that gave this era it's distinct 'London attitude' and unmistakable vibe.

In total, you'll find more than 300 sounds, comprising pinpoint drum grooves, vibe-heavy organs, resampled rompler keys, and weighty sub-basses created using the hardware used the time. There's a choice helping of crunchy analogue claps, kicks and percussion, plus a whole folder of tops and percussion loops; all imbued with just the right amount of 12-bit dirt and swing. Don't expect super-clean and pristine audio here - hiss and noise is a welcome part of the process when recreating the workflows of the mid-90s, and the analogue grit comes courtesy of various in-house hardware which includes an Akai S3000, Roland SP-404A and our trusty MPC.

Included in the content are 36 exclusive loops and oneshots, and 57 midi files. These bonus sounds and midi are not available on any other platform.

54 drum loops
39 bass loops
64 melodic loops
5 melodic oneshots
31 tops and percussion loops
68 drum hits
57 midi files (NITELIFE Audio exclusive)
10 vocal loops
12 fx and fx loops

Sunday Scene - Demo (NITELIFE Audio)

In the mid 2000s, a fresh take on the UKG sound began to be heard - Future Garage. It's a genre that's gotten broader in scope over the last decade as boundary-breaking producers and artists have skilfully weaved in more and more influences. It's a sound that borrows heavily from the darker side of 2-Step and the sonic developments of dubstep. Future Garage eschewed dubstep's wobble-bass obsession and instead drew inspiration from Detroit techno, dub and other electronic genres, taking things away from the club environment and often pursuing a more introverted, mournful aesthetic. Much like its predecessor UKG, which borrowed from RnB, jungle, and dancehall and the original US garage sound, Future Garage now encompasses all of those elements plus many more - ambient, cinematic and lo-fi, to mention just a few.

In our newest offering, we explored this incredible soundworld, utilising advanced sound design techniques such as granular synthesis, resynthesis, resampling, and field recording, culminating in a collection of more than 400 fresh sounds and midi. There's a full spectrum of snappy, swung, and shuffled drum loops which can be mixed and matched along with the percussion loops to create new variations. The bass loops feature plenty of speaker-shaking goodness in the form of the genre's quintessential reese subs and dark garage growlers, plus there's a choice helping of key-labelled oneshots to load quickly into your sampler of choice. 

In the melodics folder, you'll find more than 55 loops spanning brooding keys, dark UKG melodics, rave-style chord stabs, evolving ambient textures, and sinister atmospherics. We flipped and re-processed many of these sounds, layering them with foley or running them through the Roland SP-404 or Chase Bliss MOOD pedal. We've also reworked our own recorded textures and utilised our comprehensive library of found sounds and foley captured in London, Amsterdam, Philadelphia, Brussels, Barcelona and Johannesburg to create almost 60 all-new texture, foley and fx loops and oneshots. Everything from autumn leaves, coffee shops, and the sounds of city life, right through to haunting videogame style cues and analogue processed noise and crackle feature here, giving you all you need to create an instant mood.

To complete the collection, there's a choice helping of vocals and a prime selection of more than 100 genre-specific, custom-created drum hits for easy beat-making. We've built these from the ground up, layering and infusing the sources with foley from nature, household items and authentic vinyl crackle via various resampling sessions.

Check out the demo song and taster pack, and add 'Future Garage & Shifted Beats' to your sonic arsenal today.

PLEASE NOTE: The 41 midi files which are part of this product are included only when you purchase the full download directly from NITELIFE Audio.

	▪	71 drum loops (16 full beats with variants)
	▪	57 melodic loops
	▪	26 bass loops
	▪	13 bass oneshots
	▪	109 custom drum hits
	▪	30 fx and fx loops
	▪	8 melodic oneshots
	▪	28 percussion loops
	▪	29 textures & foley
	▪	12 vocal loops
	▪	7 vocal oneshots
	▪	41 midi loops (www.nitelifeaudio.com exclusive)

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Future Garage & Shifted Beats Demo Song (NITELIFE Audio)

NITELIFE Audio is a boutique sound design company based in Brighton, UK. We specialise in developing high quality sounds with a focus on electronic music – joining the dots between the most influential genres and movements in dance music history – from disco to house, jungle to garage and everything in between.

Our label is a tribute to sampling and it’s impact on modern-day music. it’s an art which is at the very foundations of club culture. We use the best in classic tools and techniques, wherever possible utilising the original hardware, methods and workflows coupled with forward-thinking production standards. Our aim is to bring truly authentic sound design and instant vibes into the studios of all creative producers, engineers and musicians. 

Simply put, we make inspirational royalty-free sounds to help you make amazing music.

Read the manifesto:
https://nitelifeaudio.com/about-us/

Meet the Creative Director, Scott Diaz:
https://nitelifeaudio.com/meet-the-creative-director/

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Tropical Crush (NITELIFE Audio Sample Collection)

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